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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1920)
DECEMBER 81. INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE Page Two o i n Grocery Cftat never Disappoints eustemrs Not Best Because Biggest, But Biggest Because Best No Order too Large to Fill; No Order too Small to Fill This Store Aims to Serve the Public Pleasantly and Well The Goods We Sell are Just as Represented and When Orders are Given WE NEVER DUP LICATE. We Send You Just What You Order, Never Send the "Just as Good" Kind. Calbreatb $ 3one$ Groceries Cheapest ; - v. w i Large1 III' LITTLE IS BEING DONE AGAINST FERN EVIL INSURANCE MEN DECLARE TAX IS TOO HEAVY New York A person holding a policy in any one of the American life insurance companies finds himself subject, indirectly, to the imposition of five, and perhaps six, federal taxes, E. E. Rhodes, vice president of the Mutual benefit life insurance Co., Newark, N. J., at its 14th annual convention told the association of life insurance presidents. Although emphasizing the multiple taxation of life insurance, Mr. Rhod es urged that it is far better that insurance men shall sincerely and whole-heartedly co-operate with the government in finding a reasonable basis of taxation than that they should take an antagonistic position toward all plans that may be pre sented. "What is the position of one who has sought insurance protection, in so far as federal taxes are concern ed?" asked the speaker. "In the first place, he pays a tax at the rate of 80 cents per $1000 0f insurance for the privilege of insuring his life. In the second place, he pays a personal j tax upon so much of his income as i is required to pay the premium upon i his insurance. In the third place, the amount he pays as a premium , is again taxed when it reaches the com- panv oi wnicn ne is a memoer. in me i fourth place, if the assessment of an excess profits tax is upheld by the courts premiums is again taxed. In the fifth place, so much of his pre mium as is held by the company for contingencies is being taxed as a capital stock tax. In the sixth place, when the amount insured is paid to his estate it is again taxed. "This is taxation with a vengeance. The insured is caught coming, stand ing still and going, in a transaction which he does not enter into for profit and in which there can be no profit. " Devoting his attention further to a consideration of federal income tax law, Mr. Rhodes not only called into question its constitutionality, so far as it effects life insurance, but gave an analysis of the inequality which he said results to the various companies from the actual operation of the law. "The income tax law applied to life insurance companies," Mr. Rhodes declared, "fails to meet some of the most important criteria of sound methods of taxation. It does not bear equally upon different companies. It does not provide any certainty of in come to the government. The amount of tax is not easily determinable, and when determined it is not, as im plied, a tax on net income. The tax is collected only at heavy expense to the government and to the com panies. "It is not at all clear that in so far as life insurance companies are concerned the present law meets the i costitutional requirements. ' Mr. Rhodes took a definite stand ! in opposition to the theory that I premiums should be' taxed as income ! cf the insurance companies. Bend planning 40 room house to cost $150,000. school Albany working to new furniture factory. establish a Bi'ownsville cannery burned to be rebuilt fire proof. The Dalles gets and tile factory. a concrete brick Portland "There are more non productive fern lands in western Ore gon than Irrigated and irrigablo lands in the entire state under the present irrigation tyktema or n pro jects already declared feasible," says W. E. Lawrence, station eulogist at Oregon Agricultural colletro. That fire and fern are responsible for non-productivify of large areas to an extent not recognized, Profes sor Lawrence is fliw need He says that excellent progress hai beer mado in reclamation of desr, swamp and alkaline lands, but .that little has been w r.e to bring ih ! fern areas into profitable use. Not all fern K.i nre considered as waste lands, for in some areas re forest ration has been undertaken and a new crop of fo.i",t trees has been started. The timl.t r crop is the most important single crop in O'goti, Pro fessor Lawrence rays, and lands de voted to growing a now forest stand are not to be regarded as waste merely because of the ferns, which are not a serious detriment except ns they interfere with grazing. To get an idea of the extent of the reclamable fern lands Professor Law rence cites estimates of irrigation re clamation of 144,555 acres in Oregon up to June 30, VMM, at a cost of $4. 000,000. It will call for many mil lions more to reclaim lands now in irrigation projects or proposed for future reclamation. For a very much less sum investigations could be com pleted and tests made which would result in reclaiming larger areas of burned-over fern lands. Three great fires in the middle of the last century resulted in destruc tion of the following areas: Yaquina burn, 1840, extending from the coast to the Willamette valley, 450,000 acres; Cape Perpetua burn, 1843, in Siuslaw district, 207,000 acres; Nestucca burn, date unknown, but between '50 and 'GO, 320,000 acres; total of these three burns, 977,000 acres. Scores of lesser bums have brought the rentie area of burned forests to about 4,000,000 acres, according to estimates of the Oregon state board of forestry. Approximately all the burned-over areas are potential forests, but many of them are not being reforested. Three things operate against the re stocking of these areas seed trees and seed bed were almost completely destroyed, and growth habits of younp ferns crowd out struggling seedlings, and the practice of burning the ferns each spring over much of the areas kills the young seedlings before they get well started. Douglas fir and spruce covered these large tracts before the forest fires denuded the lands. The fine stands of large trees on much of the area would now, if living, be a fine heritage of inestimable worth. PABMF.11S NOW HANDLE MUCH FA KM MACHINERY Why man we made this cigarette for you! if 11 " 'yai s n Q f H if. . til Con-allis "The farmer ntwntes more kinds i of today niachinek-y and has more responsibility in their care and efficiency than the average professional mechanic in the city says W. J. Gilmore, in announcing his tractor and farm machinery short courses at 0. A. C, starting Jan uary 17. The two-week course i aimed to help the farmer select the type of tractor best suited to hia needs, and to overhaul it and his other machines for upkeep and repai""9- Mut'h ,rnc" i tice will be given in operating single and multiple cylinder engines, and in running tractors in and out doors. 1 The 12 week course will give instruction and practice in running J tractors and in learning the construct ion and care of tractor-motors and other farm machinery. "Many small repairs ami adjust ments can be made only with, the aid of shop experience," says Prof essor (Jilmore. "This experience can be obtained with comparatively little training. Delays in making the repairs, though, are often expensive in both time and money." Farmers and other students taking these courses will have the benefit, of 12 makes and models of tractors,; provided for the purKse. Several ; practical representatives of eastern factories have promised to tie on' hand to help out in the training. Many types of farm machinery: and equipment are brought in foi overhauling by the students, under supervision of the instructors. A Happy f Prosperous New Year! We thank you for the business given us during the past year. Hartman Bros. Co. Jewelers and Opticians SALEM, OKKCION FARM BUREAU APPRECIATES WORK OF COUNTY PRESS At the anuul meeting of the Polk County Farm Bureau, held in Dallas December ISth, the following reso lution was reported out by the com mittee and unanimously adopted by the house: "We hereby extend our thanks to the following newspapers for their active support and generous contri butions of valuable space, it being recognized that what progress has betn irtu'e hn been due largely to the support of these papers: Polk County Observer, Polk County Item- izer, Monmouth Herald, Indepen- ,,. t : jn.fai i(.rc. INDUSTRIAL BREVITIES Salmon hatchery to be asked for on the Rogue river. Sheridan Willamina farmers tele phone compuny gets increased rates. Ankeny grange goes on record as opposed to any increase in salaries. Florence 25 sections in Suislaw forest open to entry January 12th. Pendleton rod und gun club to build $3000 club house. Silverton cannery putting up 100 tons apples per month. Klamath Falls mills cut itM.noo 000 fi' lumber, iner-i-e over ! .!?. (lallce - OM i".u iin I niinc of ko!1 bearing gravel has been reopetvcl. Seaside moving f .r a new grade school building. Echo-Pciidlotcii highway near.- completion. Enterprise Reporter under new mnnagenie t. Malin New 111 volt electrical f donee Enterprise.' Women's Club Will Help The women's clubs of America have formed a working agreement with the states relation service of the United States department of agri culture to cooperate in establishing and carrying on home demonstration work. Mrs. W. S. Jennings of Jack sonville, Florida, will represent the womens' clubs, and work with the state college home demonstration agents in furthering the work of im proving farm home condition. She will have an assistant in each state. valuable Airplane Device. Of nil the Inventions conceived dur ing the last decade, in the lioie of de creasing the landing speed of air planes, none lm promised more In preliminary tests than n device re cently evolved by the United Stall's bureau of standards, says popular Mechanics Magazine. It is nothing more than a simple, variable camber ril). which is used Instead of the or dinary rib, In llie construction of one plane of a biplane, or of the top jiiid bottom planes of a trlplano. One pe culiarity of construction i tlmt the nose oftMs flexible rig is flxel to the front spur, while the tailpiece Is rigid and slides on the rear spar. An other peculiarity Is that the rib struc ture between the spars Is normally symmetrical, or uncambored, but is deformed by nonsymmetrical air pres sure until it becomes a rib of most pronounced camber. k CAMELS fit your cigarette de sires so completely you'll agree they were made to meet your taste! Unique flavor, fragrance and mellow-mild-body due to Camels qual ity and expert blend of choice Turk ish and choice Domestic tobaccos are a revelation! You will prefer the Camel blend to either kind of tobacco smoked straight! With Camels you can go the limit without tiring your taste. They leave no unpleasant cigaretty after taste; no unpleasant cigaretty odor! To get a line on why Camels win you so completely compare them t putt-ior-pun witn any cigarette in TTATTZSS'ZtZ the world at any price. You 11 pre r::'"l fer quality to coupons or premiums ! ton. Wm utrongly noommmni 'ttZZyZlttttZX J- REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO., Wmoo-8.1.m, K.C. Rival of the Potato. The first carload of American-grown dasheens, Introduced Into this country to supplement the potato, arrived on the New York market recently, ai:i be cause of the limited rjuantltles shipped and the demand they sold as high as 15 cents a pound. The dasheens were grown on the east coast of Florida. The Trinidad dasheen, which Is a particularly line variety of the taro, Is one of 40,000 foreign plants Intro duced into the United States by the Department of Agriculture. It was brought here In the belief that It would yield the South a tuber crop which could he used to supplement the po tato. It contains 50 per cent more protein than the potato, according to the Department of Agriculture. Sf, IteVm, '-v mill will kiiou be ready ."oc operation. Toledo- Seven new building are under construction at the old gov ernment uairy three miles from here. Albany- New plant being erected by Alco Wood Products company nearly completed. Albai.y Sunt: im bridge to open soon. Marsidielil Smith River Timber Co., with capital stock ?.".OII,IIOII in corporateil. Pendleton Kight thomimd dollars subscribed toward erection of S'.'i'i field Flour and Feed mil!. Ware house being built. Medford Quicksilver to be mined near here, Roseburg New I. O. O. F. building completed. (.'orvailis Minimum water rat cm ; - up from 75 cents to $1 to co' cr im provements. Pendleton -$22,000 to be spent on paving in tin city. Oregon City Four bun ami to tot hilo ii have In ru . California cut porntioti. The Ihilles City's ineoim $100 n day from rock hob! highway comtnisnion. Ashland paving 1!M0 feet leading to park. ism pa.sMMi ( (itiirret. ext.Bn July 1 Mt. annual mire at work. leer Creek unwmill. Wali ifn ly, runs all winter on radroajl Highway from Item! to I: has been rrmpletely gravelrf. M; r: 'ificld t t:d t r will two milld, highent levied. Co'l'.iille gets a new phone budding. Salem tax levy is equi.' a live per cent interest fa 'J, Prilling for ol on Newtiiii south of Amity. I'Kging loud to be bllil ber on upper Crubtrce, I.ittn t . Car surpluM in eastern neither whe;t tint lumber ilaiiks dairymen put up t a to-operntivu cieanury. 111 r liiiiftrv,. 111 MM ma AJ.TOWm CO I tTAIMIWCD 1130 ' JOSTON. MASS r JZr .La- fl UUIU WUI IJf II If o whoworl; Bmi ir. tKrt it; frij.i. lte "You Save Money says the Good Judge And get more genuine chew ing satisfaction, when you use this class of tobacco. This is because the full, rich, real tobacco taste lasts 60 long, you don't need a fresh chew nearly as often. And a small chew gives more real satisfaction than a big chew of the ordinary kind ever did. Any man who uses the Real Tobacco Chew will tell you that. Put up in two styles W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobac His Mission Wasted. An Irishman made his way to a country jail and asked to be allowed to see the governor. On being ushered Into that function ary's presence he begged for the favor of an Interview with a prisoner who was to suffer the extreme penalty of the law In the course of the morning. "No, my man," said the governor, "you cannot see the prisoner. He's to be executed In half an hour, and visitors are not permitted to Bee a prisoner on the day of execution. But what might be your business with himr "Shure, sor," answered Pat, "It! his birthday, and I was after wlahlng bun many happy returns." The Season's Greetings We hope the New Year will bri peace and plenty to all of our customers The City Meat Market Gus Miller
